{"id":276295,"date":"2025-11-11T12:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276295\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:21:18","slug":"michael-jackson-becomes-first-artist-with-top-10-hits-in-six-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276295\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson Becomes First Artist With Top 10 Hits in Six Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/michael-jackson-book-excerpt-dan-beck-they-dont-care-about-us-1236557437\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/michael-jackson-book-excerpt-dan-beck-they-dont-care-about-us-1236557437\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jackson<\/a> is back in the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/billboard-hot-100\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billboard-hot-100\" data-tag=\"billboard-hot-100\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a> top 10 as \u201cThriller\u201d lifts to No. 10 following the 2025 Halloween season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe posthumous milestone cements Jackson\u2019s musical legacy: the 1982 classic amassed 14 million streams and a radio airplay audience of 9.3 million, according to Luminate. Rising from No. 32, (its highest peak was No. 4 in 1982) \u201cThriller\u201d makes Jackson the first artist ever to achieve top 10 hits in six different decades: the 1970s, \u201980s, \u201990s, 2000s, \u201910s and now the \u201920s. In doing so, he surpasses Andy Williams, who, until his death in 2012, held top 10 placements across five decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis resurgence follows the release of the trailer for the Antoine Fuqua-directed biopic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/michael-jackson-biopic-trailer-first-footage-1236168488\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/michael-jackson-biopic-trailer-first-footage-1236168488\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael<\/a>,\u201d set for theaters on April 24, 2026. The film promises: \u201c\u2018Michael\u2019 explores the global superstar\u2019s journey to becoming the King of Pop, offering an intimate look at the life and enduring legacy of one of the most influential and trailblazing artists the world has ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJackson first entered the Hot 100 top 10 as a solo artist in November 1971 with \u201cGot to Be There.\u201d Over his career, he has amassed 30 top 10 hits, including 13 No. 1s. Until this week, his last top 10 appearance was posthumously as a feature on Drake\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Matter to Me\u201d in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMeanwhile, Taylor Swift continues her Billboard dominance, holding No. 1 with \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d for a fifth consecutive week, while her album \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d simultaneously maintains the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billboard-200\" data-tag=\"billboard-200\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard 200<\/a> top spot for a fifth week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe single drew 27.4 million official streams, 59.2 million radio airplay audience impressions, and 29,000 in sales. Swift continued to propel the track\u2019s momentum with a \u201cLoud Luxury\u201d remix (released Nov. 6) and the \u201cAlone in My Tower Acoustic Version\u201d (released digitally Oct. 28; streaming availability Oct. 31).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson is back in the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 as \u201cThriller\u201d lifts to No. 10 following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[22187,41736,49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-276295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-billboard-200","9":"tag-billboard-hot-100","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}